The deluge of web pages has generated dystopian commentaries on the tragedy of the flood as well as utopian visions of harnessing the same flood for constructive purposes. Within this ocean of information there are also lifeboat web pages with design principles, but often the style parallels the early user interface writings in the 1970s. The well-intentioned Noahs who write from personal exper...

Success in fast cycle industries (e.g. consumer electronics) can depend both on rapid model replacement and on model longevity. Although Sony was as fast as any of its chief competitors in getting new models to market, an important explanation for the wide variety of models offered by the firm is the greater longevity of its key models. This finding adds an important insight to the conventional...

VMODEX is an interactive visualization tool to support system-level Design Space Exploration (DSE) of MPSoC architectures. It provides insight into the search process of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) that are typically used in the DSE process, and it facilitates the analysis of the DSE results. In this paper we extend VMODEX to enable designers to evaluate and compare the prop...

Educators, designers and curriculum creators are interested in developing educational experiences that replicate the fun aspect of video games to increase student intrinsic motivation. This aspect, which compels players to engage with the game and persist despite failing, has the potential to increase student academic success. Researchers used mixed-methods to investigate the results of an inst...

Software design is a challenging task. Nowadays, no single designer is able to developer a software alone due to the complexity of the current applications. This suggests that software development is a cooperative activity. As cooperative, software development tools need support awareness in order for usable and useful applications to be developed. This paper describes a set of requirements bas...

This paper reports an observation of communication in collaborative design by examining several historical cases of building design projects. It will present three cases of teamwork in architectural modelling. Each case provides a collection of drawings or illustrations that depict the artefacts being designed and constructed. Looking at the cases from the design as modelling perspective, two i...

This paper presents an introduction to modern and interdisciplinary concepts related to creativity and creative processes. The selected topics are of special relevance to professionals of any kind in connection with their work as designers. Some useful creative tools and approaches are also outlined. Finally, practical recommendations to enhance and apply creative work in design are elaborated.

Industrial design is intrinsically linked to manufacturing; however, what required of industrial adapt new changes brought on by Industry 4.0 in manufacturing unknown. Current literature gives little insight into how designers need evolve the current developments remain value drivers an paradigm. There minimal research describing link between design, and effect this will have sustainability. We...

The software architecture community has advocated design rationale in the last decade. However, there is little knowledge of how much reasoning is performed when software design judgments are made. In this study, we investigated the amount of design reasoning performed before making a decision. We recruited 32 students and 40 professionals to participate in this software architecture design stu...

Thanks to advances in computing power and speed, designers can now generate a wealth of data on demand to support engineering design and decision-making. Unfortunately, while the ability to generate and store new data continues to grow, methods and tools to support multidimensional data exploration have evolved at a much slower pace. Moreover, current methods and tools are often ill-equipped at...